What to do with all the iron pieces we dig? Maybe art?

[flyinryan2]

Ive been keeping all the scrap pieces of iron and other scrap pieces of "trash" this year and my 5 gallon bucket is almost full. I was going to save it till the end of the 2012 season and scrap it and see how much i could get for it. But then i was thinking of a more creative porpose for all the "trash". Some of the ideas i had was making a wind chime, piecing them together to make an animal or insect as garden art. Does anyone have any pictures of what they have done, or any more ideas?
Thanks,
Ryan

 

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[Frankn]

* Here's some.

 

[flyinryan2]

* Here's some.

Thanks! Were they just pieces that you sprayed with gold paint?

 

[ridger12]

Sorry I don't have any pictures to post but I have forged some of the iron I have found. I have made hooks to hang things on out of old RR spikes, flint strikers out of high carbon steel like old files. I have even made more blacksmith tools like bickerns and hardies out some of the stuff I have found.

 

[liftloop]

you can scrap your find and give to charity.

 

[Frankn]

Flyinryan2, The top one was sprayed with a paint called 24K gold. It was orginally steel. The bottom one was found on the beach it was black and polished to a shiney silver color. It is a light weight metal that is basicly unknown. I took it to a metal shop and a jewler, neither could identify it. Maybe a UFO part. lol
The old RR spikes make great knives if you are good at the blacksmith art, or you can just mount them.